"Is that the ghost? You really have horns. Big body, too."
When I received the report, I immediately headed out near the border with the woods stretching north of the Balkans.
He also thought that soldiers might have reported "ghosts out" that some powerful enemy had emerged.
But it didn't seem that way.
It really seemed like a ghost was coming out of the woods, as reported.
The height is bigger than a person's, and the horns are stretched out on that ghost's head, whose entire body is covered with guttering muscle armor.
Somehow, it's reminiscent of a monster called the Auga that comes out of the story.
However, according to reports, Barca's knight was not damaged at all by releasing the [ice spear].
It could have been expected that defense alone would be higher than that of a big pig, and from its appearance it would have a fearsome strength.
I'd have to decide that this is dangerous to leave to the others.
"Lord Ars, that may be a legendary creature passed down to this land."
"What do you mean, Gran? Legendary creature?
"It is. You know the story about the damage done to the big pig when he was once pioneering this forest, and it ended in a pioneering failure? But there's another variation in that story."
"Heh, I didn't know. Could it also be that the fact that ghosts came out of the woods, not big pigs, caused the discontinuance of pioneering?
"Exactly. I hope you'll think about it, Lord Ars. If only the big pigs really came out of the woods, wouldn't the knights have been able to deal with it by attacking magic at the time? I don't think it's a mistake to assume that there were opponents whose attack magic didn't work."
"I see. Maybe that ghost is on the side of preying on big pigs. I wonder if that's more and more big pigs coming out of the woods and that ghost coming after them too"
"Well, that doesn't matter, Lord Ars. They'll get rid of that ghost soon."
"Ooh. You're not going to fight with me, are you, Gran? Nothing, but why are you so excited?
"What are you talking about, Lord Ars? If you get the material from that ghost, you might be able to create something new again. There's no way you're not excited."
Gran next to me observing ghosts with binoculars from a distance is breathing tremendously.
I see.
So are you excited?
Fair enough.
I can't even stand outside like this at a time when temperatures are dropping.
After I lost my binoculars, I rode to Valkyrie and ran to the ghost.
"Ice Spear"
Across the Valkyrie, he approaches ghosts at top speed and unleashes attack magic.
I heard about it in the report, but I tried to see if the magic really didn't work myself.
An ice column as thick and as long as a man's arm emerges from my palm and is fired.
The ice spear hit the ghost body without a target.
"Really ineffective, all the time"
A ghost who guarded the [ice spear] that flew in with two exuberant arms like a marutai.
There was not one scratch on that mucky flesh.
The big pig was also highly durable, but I still feel this guy is more than that.
The ghost attacked me. He saw me and he fought back.
"Graaaaaa"
A ghost shouting out loud.
Then his musculoskeletal body grew even larger.
The muscles in the body thrive as the mistletoe and sound.
Somehow, I make a change that makes me wonder if the buoyant muscles have become metal armor.
And he releases a punch waving down his hard arm as he roars.
Quite quickly but when Valkyrie avoided it slightly, the punch cut the sky and hit the ground.
Dogon!!
and sinks so that the ground on which that punch hit is wide open.
Is it so much with the power of punches alone?
If I ate that stuff on my body, I wouldn't have one.
There was a horrible one nearby.
"Then how about this one?
Running again to where the ghost who hit the ground is in shape.
Now the attack is closer than earlier.
Attacked with magic on the Kyouo sword in his hand.
Instead of [Magic Infusion], you control your own magic and infuse more magic into the Nine-Tailed Sword than usual.
But it doesn't work the way I thought.
Like Pessi, who was said to be Urk's next owner, I've been trying a lot since then to see if I can get a black sword out to the Kyouo sword.
But it simply doesn't seem to make sense to pour more magic into it.
It had ended up simply with the result that the length of the flaming sword that appeared would only grow longer than usual.
Apparently, the Nine-Tailed Sword or Thunder Ring Sword have an upper limit, although if they pour more magic, their output will be higher than when [magic injection] is the only one.
He doesn't have a black sword coming out of his nine-tailed sword where he put all his magic into it, and he can't shoot down lightning with a thunderous sword.
I really wish I could have used the black one.
Well, there's nothing I can do without it.
Observe the ghost you attacked while verifying the Nine-Tailed Sword that way.
Apparently, this ghost wasn't as damaging as the Flaming Sword of the Nine-Tailed Sword either.
Maybe this guy has physical abilities that are equivalent to those of the main class called human beings.
So, once you have the Kyouo sword, you use another magic sword.
Got my namesake iron slaughter sword Gran Barca.
It's a Japanese sword-shaped magic sword made from the teeth of a giant pig's larvae and raised by me and Valkyrie with a massive infusion of magic.
The magic sword, which was originally a small weapon about a small sword by the magic it captured, has grown on its own to a considerable length, and moreover has turned into the shape of a knife.
That trait is just that it is easy to break and cut anyway.
"Graaaaaa"
"Shotgun."
As he approached the ghost with that iron slashing sword in his hand, the other side moved into an offensive posture again, swinging his arms wide and beating him.
The power of that punch is going to be devastating if it's just blurred.
So I unleash the magic of [shotgun] around my eyes, attacking the eyes of ghosts.
Exactly unlike skin, even ghosts seemed to hurt when stones entered my eyes.
I can suck for a moment.
We approached there and saw the attack by the Iron Slash Sword.
Light enough to make the sound of spa.
It scratched the body of a ghost that was completely undamaged by attack magic and attacks by the Kyouo sword.
Apparently, with this iron slashing sword, the attack worked safely.
"Yes, that's it."
And he succeeded in chopping off the ghost's head by repeating the same attack several times afterwards.
Exactly when you can cut your body up and down from your neck, you don't seem to be safe with any ghosts with tough flesh.
He managed to successfully crusade the ghost.
"Good day, Lord Ars. That ghost is the responsibility of the awkward."
"Come early, Gran. Ma, look. Regards."
"You asked me, Lord Ars. The awkward will be rude to Vulcania with this. Lord Ars wants you to continue your efforts to exorcise ghosts."
"... Yes? You still got ghosts?
"It would be natural. Does Lord Ars think there are only ghosts in this vast forest? I don't think so."
"Wait a minute, Gran. He's the only one out of the woods called Ghost, isn't he? Don't you need to take down ghosts who might live in the woods on purpose?
"That's not how it works. Once it came out, it could mean that the forest border and haunted dwellings are close. If so, it would be something residents are anxious about, not knowing when the next ghost will come out. Then it is only natural to know where the ghosts live and keep the ghosts who live there exorcised."
"Maybe I'll do it? The ghost hunt and the ghost exorcism?
"... we ask back the other way, but who can deal with that ghost but Lord Ars?
You're kidding me.
I'm busy looking like this, too.
But surely Gran is right, if it's the other guys, could they be killed without a hand or a leg?
I can't help it.
Why don't you invite my part-time brother to explore the woods?
Thus, despite defeating the ghost that appeared in Barca, the problem of ghosts was not yet likely to end.